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WE’LL TAKE 2! These Libyans are actually flashing peace signs as they wait to see Moammar Khadafy’s body yesterday, the day Mustafa Abdul-Jalil approved polygamy. Photo: Reuters

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Heaven can wait.

Victorious rebels in Libya won’t need to martyr themselves to win an adoring harem of virgins — one of their governing council’s first orders of business yesterday was lifting restrictions on men having multiple wives.

“As an Islamic country, we adopted sharia as the principal law,” decreed Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the National Transition Council. “Any law that violates sharia is null and void legally.”

The revolutionary then told thousands in Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising that ended last week with strongman Moammar Khadafy’s death, that all men will again be free to take up to four brides without restriction.

But despite the extra earthly pleasures now afforded to men, Abdul-Jalil offered a kneeled prayer and said fallen fighters are now “somewhere better than here, with God.”

Abdul-Jalil added, in accordance with Islamic law, that bank interest will be capped.

During the Khadafy era, men needed their wives’ permission to marry another woman and banks were generally operated according to Western practices.

Without addressing the sharia issue, President Obama issued a statement congratulating the Libyans.

“After four decades of brutal dictatorship and eight months of deadly conflict, the Libyan people can now celebrate their freedom and the beginning of a new era of promise,” Obama said.

Separately, new video of Khadafy’s final moments have begun circulating that show he was kicked, slapped and possibly sodomized by the rebels who captured him in a Sirte drainage ditch.

Khadafy is seen on the ground being kicked and punched. He is later stood up and dragged as the rebels shout in Arabic, “God is Great,” and fire shots in the air.

At one point a man approaches Khadafy and slaps him at least twice across the face, according to the video obtained by the Global Post.

At another point, it appears a man is shoving his rifle barrel into Khadafy’s rectum. Khadafy is wearing pants and his entire rear end appears blood-soaked.

His corpse was on display in a commercial freezer for the third day since his death last Thursday and Libya’s chief pathologist said an autopsy confirmed Khadafy died of a gunshot to the head.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared on most of the Sunday-morning political talk shows, touting that the Obama administration’s leadership led to the despot’s demise.

But Clinton admitted she was repulsed by images of Khadafy’s body paraded through the streets, blood trickling from a gunshot wound to his temple.

“Obviously, no one wants to see any human being in that condition, yet I know what a great relief it was to millions of Libyans that the past was finished,” Clinton said on ABC’s “This Week.”

She said the end of Khadafy means that Libyans “can move into a different future without fear and intimidation.”

Clinton backed plans by the United Nations to investigate Khadafy’s killing.

Clinton also called for the return to jail of Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Baset Ali Megrahi, who was released from a Scottish prison in August 2009 because he was said to be dying.